Tom Chance's website

Free software/culture

Various essays, bits and other bobs I want to keep track of...

Why free software is a human right, and why human rights workers should use Free Software (mainly for reasons of freedom from outside bias, accountability, verifiability, quality and suitability).

Why development agencies and ethical trading in general ought to be based upon and learn from free software.

A brilliant essay on reclaiming the commons, covering everything from software to drugs and natural space, all inspired loosely by the free software philosophy.

Soderberg's Marxist critique of Copyleft vs. Copyright, and also his article arguing that reformist critics of copyright exhibit a false modesty, and ought to be more revolutionary.

Along a similar vein, an article on free software and market relations by a member of the Marxist collective Oekonux.

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